Duncan Sheik

Fact Sheet

Musical genre:	Pop
Birthday	18 November 1969 (38)
Sign	Scorpio
Birthplace	Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Official site	http://www.duncansheik.com/

Duncan Scott Sheik is an American singer-songwriter. Sheik's upbringing was split between his parents' home in South Carolina and that of his grandparents in New Jersey. There, Sheik's grandmother (a piano graduate of The Juilliard School) taught him to play the piano and encouraged his musical development. Sheik graduated from Phillips Academy in 1988, after which he studied semiotics at Brown University.

Sheik began his professional musical career playing for other acts, including Liz And Liza (with Lisa Loeb), and played on His Boy Elroy's 1993 album. Duncan Sheik's eponymous debut album spawned the 1996 hit single "Barely Breathing" in the U.S. In 1998, he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Barely Breathing".

His second album, 1998's Humming, was a more low-key piece than his first, reflecting Sheik's Buddhist faith. In 2002, he made a brief comeback with the song "On A High" and "Half Life".

Duncan Sheik's work featured on the soundtrack to the TV show ER and the movie Teaching Mrs. Tingle.

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